Warming temperatures can ramp up the activity of methane-producing bacteria in wetland soils, adding to methane emissions.

Under the Trump administration, NOAA has minimized an announcement that climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the ...

The problem with this line of reasoning, analysts say, is that while the country is pumping more than ever before, there’s ...

A collaborative cross-border study digging into forested tidal swamps in the Pacific Northwest has determined these ...

Scientists are worried because they can’t fully explain the big jump, but they think it might mean that carbon absorption by forests, fields and wetlands is slowing down—a major problem for the world.

Rising temperatures could tip the scale in an underground battle that has raged for millennia. In the soils of Earth's ...

The Brazilian rainforest is thought of as the world’s greatest “carbon sink”, yet our wet Irish peatlands store four times as much carbon per hectare, while also yielding a range of profitable ...

UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton has been wading through thick, smelly muck in the ...